Acts of Reading
Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese

What are the aspects of reading in Japan as manifested in Japanese society? What second-language reading problems are specific to Japanese? This text sets out to explore what reading is for Japanese as a language and how instructors should teach it to students of Japanese.

The second question relates more directly to traditional concerns in L2 reading. The authors begin with a general theory of reading. They then offer a welcome glimpse into the rich and complex perspectives - sometimes conflicting, other times symbiotic - on what reading is and how it is performed in L1 and L2, and, most importantly, on the web of interconnections between the phenomenology of reading and the demands it places on teaching approaches to reading in Japanese.